studying historical literature of the Second World War, one can often encounter such a word as "holocaust."Where did this concept?What is the Holocaust?Let us try to find an answer to these and other questions.
What is the Holocaust?
This word is of Greek origin and means "burnt offering."This term is used to describe the events of 1933-45 years of harassment and mass destruction of the Jewish people by the Nazis.Documentary sources claim that during this period killed more than six million people.
Holocaust.History
Policy privately held anti-Semitism in Western countries up to the fifteenth century.Then, as a result of economic, religious and other conflicts, the Jewish nation was ousted in Eastern Europe.Here, however, the persecution did not stop them.And even the Christian church advocated the persecution of Jews.
In the twentieth century the role of the initiator and organizer of the policy of anti-Semitism takes on Germany.Since that time and during the twelve years of the persecution of the Jews acquire the character of brutal mass persecution and ruthless extermination.These measures were implemented according to the policy of Hitler's Nazism.
early as 1924, Adolf Hitler wrote his famous book called "My Struggle", in which he justifies the "system" of the extermination of the Jews.Two years after he came to power, he creates a series of anti-Jewish laws of orientation.These decisions significantly limited the activities of the Jews in all walks of life, depriving them of citizenship and forbidding marriages with Germans.
In 1938, on the orders of Adolf Hitler organized a pogrom of the Jewish population, which is popularly called "Kristallnacht".During the meeting held in the concentration camp it was sent more than thirty thousand people.
This event was the beginning of ill-German genocide carried out in many European countries.
Policy of Hitler against the Jews
understand what the Holocaust and to reliably estimate its extent possible, to learn the basic principles of the Nazi ideology.Hitler believed that the German race needs in the best conditions of life.This is only possible due to the deprivation of the property of Jews and other peoples of territories under their jurisdiction, which, by reason of uselessness, later to be exterminated.For this purpose Hitler's entourage, in the occupied territories they have established a special concentration camps of death.For the destruction of the Jewish people by German Nazis used gas chambers and cars.
Holocaust victims
on the territory of Russia as a result of mass shootings killed more than two million Jews.Approximately five hundred thousand people died in the labor camps and ghettos from malnutrition, disease and ill-treatment.
Struggle against antisemitism
In 1942, the Jewish Committee issued a statement in which he called the Jews all over the world for active struggle against German fascism.Call caused immediate effect.Former prisoners of the German occupiers were created by regular armies, guerrilla groups, and in the concentration camps - resistance groups.Fighting on all fronts, the Jews fought a relentless struggle against the Nazis.Perhaps the most heroic and also tragic event was the revolt that took place in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1944, when it was destroyed more than ten thousand people.For many of them die in the struggle was a unique form of spiritual resistance and courage.
In 1945, after the end of World War II, the Nuremberg court, on the initiative of the global political elite presented the leaders of the Nazi occupiers charged with mass murder.Thus ended the period of mass persecution of Jews.
That is what the Holocaust.For the entire Jewish population of this word will always respond unbearable pain in his heart.
